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William Plomer
15 quotes
“We hear a great deal about sex nowadays; it is possible to overestimate its importance, because there are always people who pay it little attention or who apparently manage, like Sir Isaac Newton, to get along, without giving it a thought.”
William Plomer (1903–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who strolls so late, for mugs a bait, In the mists of Maida Vale, Sauntering past a stucco gate Fallen, but hardly frail?”
William Plomer (1903–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A family portrait not too stale to record Of a pleasant old buffer, nephew to a lord, Who believed that the bank was mightier than the sword, And that an umbrella might pacify barbarians abroad: Just like an old liberal Between the wars.”
William Plomer (1903–1973) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Father and Son: 1939", line 1
“Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designed Than other times when blind men into ditches led the blind, When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind, And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.”
William Plomer (1903–1973) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Father and Son: 1939", line 73
“With first-rate sherry flowing into second-rate whores, And third-rate conversation without one single pause: Just like a young couple Between the wars.”
William Plomer (1903–1973) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Father and Son: 1939
“A pleasant old duffer, nephew to a lord, Who believed that the bank was mightier than the sword, And that an umbrella might pacify barbarians abroad: Just like an old liberal Between the wars.”
William Plomer (1903–1973) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Father and Son: 1939
“When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin: An abstemious man would reel at her look As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.”
William Plomer (1903–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A rose-red sissy half as old as time.”
William Plomer (1903–1973) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Playboy of the Demi-World: 1938
“'Look who's here! Do come and help us fiddle while Rome burns!'”
William Plomer (1903–1973) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Playboy of the Demi-World: 1938
“So never say to D'Arcy, 'Be your age!' — He'd shrivel up at once or turn to stone.”
William Plomer (1903–1973) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Playboy of the Demi-World: 1938
“Brzeska and Brooke were among those she knew And she lived long enough to meet Lawrences, too, D. H. and T. E. – she who'd known R. L. S., Talked to Hardy of Kim, and to Kipling of Tess!”
William Plomer (1903–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The commonplace needs no defence, Dullness is in the critic’s eyes, Without a licence life evolves From some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms, Behind these hedges trimly shorn, As in a stable once, so here It may be born, it may be born.”
William Plomer (1903–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's so utterly out of the world! So fearfully wide of the mark! A Robinson Crusoe existence will pall On that unexplored side of the Park — Not a soul will be likely to call!”
William Plomer (1903–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Out of that bungled, unwise war An alp of unforgiveness grew.”
William Plomer (1903–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On a sofa upholstered in panther skin Mona did researches in original sin.”
William Plomer (1903–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source